Minnesota

In 1999 Leon Botstein, long-time president of Bard College (and conductor of the American Symphony) first proposed starting school at 4- or 5-years-old and graduating high school students at age 16.

Botstein argued that teenagers mature much faster than they did when high schools were first invented. He also argued, nearly 20 years ago, that “Information and images, as well as the real and virtual freedom of movement we associate with adulthood, are now accessible to every 15- and 16-year-old.”

Consider:

In 2015 7,575 public high school students, 759 nonpublic pupils, and 1,842 home school high school students earned 167,206 credits at state colleges and universities in a program called Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO). The State of Minnesota paid $31.8 million to participating colleges and universities on behalf of these students.